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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ben@decadent.org.uk, davem@davemloft.net, bzolnier@gmail.com
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 20:09:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] buffer: make invalidate_bdev() drain all percpu LRU
add caches
commit fa4b9074cd8428958c2adf9dc0c831f46e27c193 upstream.
invalidate_bdev() should release all page cache pages which are clean
and not being used; however, if some pages are still in the percpu LRU
add caches on other cpus, those pages are considered in used and don't
get released. Fix it by calling lru_add_drain_all() before trying to
invalidate pages.
This problem was discovered while testing block automatic native
capacity unlocking. Null pages which were read before automatic
unlocking didn't get released by invalidate_bdev() and ended up
interfering with partition scan after unlocking.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
fs/buffer.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index c9c266d..08e422d 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev)
return;
invalidate_bh_lrus();
+ lru_add_drain_all(); /* make sure all lru add caches are flushed */
invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, 0, -1);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalidate_bdev);
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